Lipstick put on around the lips

[CruCru]

I’ve started noticed more and more women who have drawn their lipstick around their lips, rather than just on them. AIBU to find this quite weird? I think it is meant to make their lips look fuller but it usually looks as though they missed their lips and decided that it would do. One of the contestants on Race Across the World used to do it.

Is this a new make up trend that has just passed me by? It’s rather unnerving.

They don’t look overpainted to me

Overlining looks really odd, like they’ve put on their lipstick in the car and missed. This and the contouring/bronzing stuff seems to be driven by makeup influencers and get ready with mes - all of whom are on film, where it looks ok.
In real life it looks clownish.

I think it looks really awful too, I have fairly full lips but had a make up artist overline my lips for a job recently and while the photos looked good I've never do it irl as they looked ridiculous in person.

It’s a make up artist trick that doesn’t work when done badly.

We all have two lip lines - an inner and an outer one.

Good make up artists subtly enhance the outer one with a shade that’s close to the natural lip colour and use a corresponding nudist lipstick. It does make lips fuller.

But that translates to RL with people using (the trend now seems to be dark brown lip pencil) massively overdrawing above their outer lip line and filling in with much lighter lipstick.

It looks crap - much like the whole slugs as eyebrows or harsh contouring.

Some people just don’t seem to look in the mirror…what works (often with a filter) on Instagram doesn’t work in real life (or with your face shape/skin tone).

But hey…it’s the fashion and I was once not immune (shudders at the memory of electric blue mascara and eyeliner bought from Ms Selfridge - white and pink packaging- am I alone here? As a very young teen and thought I looked amazing 😂)

It isn’t that they have put lip liner on the outside edge of their lips, more that they have gone well past their lips and drawn a mouth on where the start of their chin is.

Exaggerated bow, not generally overdrawn like the 40s lips but concentrated in the middle. Same principle just bigger and more defined in the middle.

Clara didn’t overpaint.

Rather she under painted by creating a sharp cupids bow and stopping her natural lip line at the sides to create an artificial heart shaped mouth.

Looked great on film (with thick grease paint - pre even pancake make up) but I suspect in real life it would have looked pretty awful.

I used Lucille Ball as my inspiration for 40s makeup for fancy dress and had to adjust the lipstick, it looked too mad. It was part of her whole look but did not translate.

I used to do that in the 80s. I wanted to look like Debbie Harry

Isn't it ombre lips rather than just over lining? I mean who can be arsed? Some people must spend literally hours getting ready with routines for hair, skin care and make up. Life is too short! I'm not averse to make up and self care, but there is no need for so much of it, especially not on younger skin.

It can look good on Hollywood stars who have professional makeup artists, usually if they are wearing something very neutral and subtle with gloss rather than bright red. It’s not a look I’d ever have the confidence to go out in personally.

I’ve just had a Google - this is the sort of thing I mean.

@CruCru Ah that’s just silly isn’t it?

I used to do this and use concealer on my lips. I must have looked a total pleb.

edit to add - maybe it took away from my ridiculous hair sprayed fringe!

I’m seeing more and more women doing this. Our waitress today was a good looking young woman but it was hard to look at her because she had lipstick where it didn’t belong.

But that’s in a pic, you’re not seeing them in real life.

That was all about the contrasting colour lip liner (shudders)

I once saw a presumably very wealthy Jordanian woman ( I heard her say she was Jordanian)with a face fully contoured . I honestly thought it was some kind of joke until I realised.

Does this just mean when you can see the visible lip liner and they've done it kind of on the outside to make their lips look bigger?

I always just thought it was a mistake when you can see the lip liner

Is it a choice?
Why would that look better in a photo?

If she does indeed mean the former, then this comes across as a probably white woman telling a black woman how black women should apply beauty standards? Which is, ironically, not a good look. But hopefully that isn’t what you meant.

I am/was asking the question as black woman which is why I wrote “us” black women as I didn’t understand if she meant us (black women in general) or specifically black American women.
She said lipstick but what I’ve seen on Instagram and in real life, people use lip liner to contour their lip edges and lipstick on the lips not the edges of their lips.

A trend way before the 90s. Look up Lucille Ball, Joan Crawford, Vivien Leigh. It was a trick which worked great in black and white films but looks silly in colour. I'm not sure how people manage the bravery to go into public if they do this on a regular day.

Look, we’re all aware that some women have had the tendency to overline historically.

However right now there is a major trend for many women to do this, and to a more extreme extent than previously.

Women have altered the shape of their lips with lips ever since lipstick was invented.

"rather unnerving" get a grip.